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Celebrating Collaboration

Smith College’s annual showcase of student research and performance highlights students’ intellectual achievements and their collaborative efforts with faculty in a variety of departmental, program and interdisciplinary projects. It is a celebration of liberal arts education.

The 2011 event featured the work of 404 students who participated in 252 presentations, with the guidance of 126 faculty members. Students participated in individual talks, panels, poster sessions, exhibits and performances, in the areas of science and technology, performing arts, and social, cultural and literary studies.

African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Archives Concentration, Art

Biochemistry, Biological Sciences

Center for Community Collaboration, Chemistry, Classics, Comparative Literature, Computer
Science

Dance, East Asian
Languages & Literatures, Economics, Education &
Child Study

Engineering, English
Language & Literature

Environmental Science & Policy, Exercise & Sport Studies, Film Studies,
First Year Seminar, French Studies

Geosciences, Global
Learning Seminar,
Government

History, Interdepartmental Programs, Internships,
Italian Language &
Literature, Jewish Studies,
Kahn Institute

Landscape Studies, Latin American & Latino/a
Studies, Linguistics,
Mathematics & Statistics

Museums Concentration,
Music

Neuroscience

Philosophy, Physics,
Poetry Concentration, Psychology

Religion, Russian Language
& Literature, Smith Studies,
Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese, Study of
Women & Gender, Theatre

Geosciences

Jennifer Axler 11
Forming Giant Garnets
science poster session deriving from thesis with John Brady, Mary Elizabeth Moses Professor of Geosciences

Lily Seidman 11
Origin of the Enigmatic Breccia and Folds in the Turners Falls Formation in Western Massachusetts
science poster session deriving from thesis with H.  Robert Burger, Achilles Professor of Geosciences

Jennifer Axler 11, Naomi Barshi 12, Sara Gonzalez 12 and Alianora Walker 11
Shallow Geophysical Exploration South of Northampton Sanitary Landfill
science poster session deriving from classwork with H.  Robert Burger, Achilles Professor of Geosciences

Sarah Brisson 14
Making Cracks and Chips in Mud-Free Sand and Glass Beads
science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences
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Naomi Barshi 12
Shifting Sands: Storm Impacts on Plum Island, Massachusetts
science poster session deriving from special studies with Robert Newton, professor of geosciences

Monica Rolls 12
Drilling Predation Rates at Duck Creek Branch, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
science poster session deriving from classwork with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Katie Castagno 12
Geochemical Analysis of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group Carbonates in Western Newfoundland
science poster session deriving from special studies with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Lilly Dalton 12
A Microfossil Assemblage from Post-Sturtian Cap Carbonates of the Rasthof Formation, Northern Namibia
science poster session deriving from special studies and AEMES research with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Ellen Maley 11
Characterizing Trace Metal Concentrations in Surface Soils, Boulder County, Colorado
science poster session deriving from thesis with Amy Rhodes, associate professor of geosciences

Global Learning Seminar

Onawa LaBelle AC12, Carly Mailly 12, Karen Morfin 12, Ryan Rasdall 11 and Anna Valentine 11
Empowerment of Tibetan Students through Women's Health Education
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Global Learning Seminar with Leslie Jaffe, college physician and director of health services
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Government

Hanzhang Liu 11
Inner-Party Democracy in China: A New Model of Democracy or a Road Leading to Nowhere?
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government
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Lily Samuels 11
Coming Home: The Struggles of Returning Girl Soldiers in Northern Uganda
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Gregory White, professor of government
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Megan Beyer 13
Two Twentieth Century Genocides: Rwanda 1994 and the Holocaust
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Catharine Newbury, professor of government
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Amelia Mitchell 11
Defining Legitimacy in Transitional Justice
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Alice Hearst, associate professor of government

Jade Bowden 11
International Topics in Corruption: Italy, Brazil, Thailand, Sarah Unbehaun 11 and Malika Hunasikatti 11
International Topics in Corruption: Italy, Brazil, Thailand
panel presentation deriving from classwork with Mlada Bukovansky, associate professor of government
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Lily Samuels 11, Amelia Mitchell 11 and Catherine Campoverde 11
International Topics in Corruption: The OECD, Uganda, Ecuador
panel presentation deriving from classwork with Mlada Bukovansky, associate professor of government
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